In-Salon Trichology Clinic - Jan 2019

Hello Ladies,

How is 2019 going for you so far? Hope great. We are glad to inform you that our first In Salon Trichology Consult for 2019 is right here! That time has come again for you to make good choices about your hair and scalp, by having a thorough one on one session with a trichologist visiting the salom. This session is ideal for people with hair loss issues, scalp and hair shaft disorders.

As we all know, there are limited spaces available, as we have to work thoroughly with each client for diagnosis, prognosis, recommendation, etc. So if you know people interested in seeing a trichologist, or who you know have a hair shaft or scalp disorder, let them know about this great opportunity. It doesn't matter if you have natural hair, relaxed hair, or no hair at all, we are here to solve hair and scalp problems.

This is brought to you by O'Naturals in collaboration with African Naturalistas. Each booking entitles the client to one hour of consultation with the trichology practitioner. See more details in the flyers below.

It will be happening on the 26th of January 2019 at O'Naturals Salon, Ogudu road, lagos.

Please, help us spread the word, and let everyone hear about it. In the mean time, read more about our Hair Clinic here.

In-Salon Trichology Clinic - May 2018

Hello Ladies,

I am glad to announce that this Saturday, 19th May, 2018, we will be having the May edition of the In Salon Trichology Consult. It is another opportunity for us to visit the salon to have a thorough one on one session with a trichologist. This session is ideal for people with hair loss issues, scalp and hair shaft disorders.

Believe is when we say there are limited spaces available, as we have to work thoroughly with each client for diagnosis, prognosis, recommendation, etc. Despite this fact, we always announce it here, so we can give our blog readers the opportunity. So if you know people interested in seeing a trichologist, or who you know have a hair shaft or scalp disorder, let them know about this great opportunity. It doesn't matter if you have natural hair, relaxed hair, or no hair at all, we are here to solve hair and scalp problems.

This is brought to you by O'Naturals in collaboration with African Naturalistas. Each booking entitles the client to one hour of consultation with the trichology practitioner. See more details in the flyers below.

It will be happening on the 19th of May 2018 at O'Naturals Salon, Ogudu road, lagos.

Please, help us spread the word, and let everyone hear about it. In the mean time, read more about our Hair Clinic here.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - My Journey to Permanent Locs (4)

Hello beautiful people, I hope you had a wonderful Easter break.

It's been a while since I visited the salon or did anything on my hair at all. Before last week, I had not been to the salon in six weeks. It was with so much joy that I went to the salon, as  my scalp was on fire.

We are still om the journey to permanent locs. For the first time since I embarked on this journey last December, I finally got to wash the hair two weeks ago, though the hair is not fully locked. The roots unravelled in the process of washing, but a large chunk of the hair is locked.

I got to O'Naturals, and met with the loctician in charge of my hair. I discovered good news and bad news.

Good news: My locs were forming pretty well

Bad news: I lost a loc on my right temple. Thank you Post Partum Shedding. I thought I was going to escape you *side eye*

For the second time around, I forgot my medicated shampoo at home, so I had to go straight to using regular shampoo and conditioner. When this was done, we proceeded to separate the roots as usual, and then a scalp treatment on my head. I didn't need to go under the dryer yet, which is very good for me, as I am not a fan of dryers. We washed again, and dried with a micro fibre towel. Once this was done, my hair was sprayed, and we proceeded to lock it loc by loc. This took a bit of time because my hair is quite full and the locs are quite lengthy

Learning my lesson from the last time I was at the salon, I wasn't in as much hurry as I was previously, so I could get my locs properly styled after they were done. I now know that I won't want to wear my locs out right after leaving the salon. I asked for a style that would cover the area where I lost a loc, and this is what we ended up with.

Once again, I am glad I started my locs properly, and well arranged. This always allows my lock to style properly.

Also, this style will yield three styles, just like the previous ones. The second will be the one where I unravel the side bangs, to reveal slighly curly loc strands, and then the regular locs, when I unravel them all.

What do you think about this hairstyle? Yay or nay???

P.S: Don't forget about the In-salon Trichology consultation we are having this weekend. Spaces are fast filling up. For more details, please click here.

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

In-Salon Trichology Clinic is Back!

Hello Ladies,

How are you all doing? I am glad to announce that the In Salon Trichology Consult is back! Yes, we are back and better. That time has come again when we visit the salon to have a thorough one on one session with a trichologist. This session is ideal for people with hair loss issues, scalp and hair shaft disorders.


As we all know, there are limited spaces available, as we have to work thoroughly with each client for diagnosis, prognosis, recommendation, etc. So if you know people interested in seeing a trichologist, or who you know have a hair shaft or scalp disorder, let them know about this great opportunity. It doesn't matter if you have natural hair, relaxed hair, or no hair at all, we are here to solve hair and scalp problems.


This is brought to you by O'Naturals in collaboration with African Naturalistas. Each booking entitles the client to one hour of consultation with the trichology practitioner. See more details in the flyers below.

It will be happening on the 14th of April 2018 at O'Naturals Salon, Ogudu road, lagos.

Please, help us spread the word, and let everyone hear about it. In the mean time, read more about our Hair Clinic here.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - My Journey to Permanent Locs (3)

Hello beautiful people, ladies and the few gentlemen reading this. It's great to have you back here on the Hairstyle Lounge.

We are still on the journey to permanent locs. For the first time since I embarked on this journey last December, I finally got to wash the hair two weeks ago, though the hair is not fully locked. The roots unravelled in the process of washing, but a large chunk of the hair is locked.

When I got to O'Naturals, I had a trichology consultation appointment with a client, after which I got my hair done, sort of using one stone to kill two birds. The first thing we did was to wash my hair. We did this with both shampoo and conditioner. Who knew that loc heads still needed to use conditioners? Lol, just kidding. When this was done, we proceeded to separate the roots cos I had a lot of new growth, and the roots was matted due to lack of detangling, which is normal for locs. Once this was done, my hair was sprayed, and we proceeded to lock it loc by loc. This took a bit of time because my hair is quite full and the locs are quite lengthy

I was in so much hurry that I told the stylist not to style my locs once we were done. I had to have a rethink because I totally aint ready for everyday parking and twisting. So I asked her to do flat twists in front, and leave the back to flow freely. When she was almost done, I asked her if anything could be done to the freeflowing back, and won't be time-consuming. She said she could either wrap it or do one other thing (which I don't remember what she called it). I asked her to wrap it. She did that, and I ended up with the most beautiful locs style ever. Everyone in the salon was fawning at my hair, lol.

This time, I made sure not to forget to take pictures. View them below. There's also a funny peace out hair video I did for you all at the end.

As Omozo of O'Naturals said, this picture reveals why it is important for one to start locs properly in the initial stage, beacause if done well, styling it will be beautiful. We all know that some loc heads can't try this style because the cuttings were not well arranged from the beginning.

As usual, this will yield three styles. The second will be the one where I unravel the wrap, to reveal slighly curly loc strands, and then the regular locs, when I unravel them all.

All I could say was thank God I chose to be patient to style the hair, cos I am loving it. Are you loving it like me?

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - My Journey to Permanent Locs (2)

Hello everyone. I hope 2018 is being good to you all so far. Now that January is over, we can say that 2018 is officially ended cos once new year fever is over, February comes, life happens, and before you know it, it is December, lol.

So my journey to permanent locs is going pretty good. It is looking more like locs now, and less like comb curls, lol. I was supposed to relock my hair three weeks after the first locking session, but O'Naturals salon was on their annual break, so I had to make it four weeks. Thankfully, the locs were thriving, and didn't unravel, so I was good to go.

As agreed on the terms of my pre-booked appointment, I got to O'Naturals at a certain time, and we got to work. To my sad amazement, my hair wasn't washed. I was really looking forward to washing my hair because I hadn't moisturized, cleansed, or washed for the past 4 weeks, since the first locking session. This is because when you are newly locking your hair, moisture will unravel it, and not let your hair lock, so your hair must be completely and permanently locked before it can be washed.

So the O'Naturals loctician did a thorough oil cleansing on my scalp, using an oil mix and cotton wool. She then proceeded to handle her business lock by lock. This took a bit above one hour. We both observed that my locs were making good progress, so I asked her if I could style my hair in those beautiful locs style I see online, and she said I could. This was good for me, as it would get me away from the regular flowing down dreadlocks look, and having to pack my hair up every night. I also felt it would enable to let the locks stretch out more, since shrinkage had dealt with it in the process of locking. And that is exactly what we did. I must say that it was a win win win win win solution for all stakeholders involved, lol.

In the end, we ended up with a great style that I could convert into other styles as I wished. I had chosen a dreadlocks styled in side bangs. See the variations below.

Okay, I confess. The two pictures above were taken almost two weeks after I made the hair, hence the frizz. I kept forgetting to take pictures. Let me just console myself that you are reading this to see how the style turned out to be.

The three pictures below were taken almost three weeks after I made the hair, a night before I switched the style up.

And then, this was the second style I got out of it

I will have this new look for the next 4 to 5 days, and then I will let everything down to have a proper locs look.

So what do you guys think? Yay or nay? Which was your fave look of the two style? Let's know in the comment session.

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - My Journey to Permanent Locs

Hello Ladies. I hope the year of 2018 is being good to us all so far.

Just like I said in the last edition of Hairstyle lounge, I am making some major changes when it comes to my hairstyling. Some of the readers of this blog will remember that I used to be on dreadlocks before I cut it all off to wear my natural hair out a little over seven years ago. Well, after over a year of consideration and toying with the idea, I decided to go back to dreadlocks, this time, with my long hair.

I told Omozo of O'Naturals about it last year, and forgot about it. Towards the end of the year, she reminded me, and even though I was still quite hesitant, I was like "let's do it. What's the worst that could happen?"

After I took down the frohawk of last edition, the O'Naturals locticial proceeded to detangle my hair using African Naturalistas Moisturising and Detangling conditioner. We then went on to wash with a medicated shampoo, to make sure my scalp was in good condition, and followed it up with a regular shampoo. We dried the hair, and proceeded to steam with African Naturalistas Deep Conditioning Mayonnaise.

After this, I had to say goodbye to my free long hair and get it locked up (in jail), lol.

Strand by strand, she did her work on my hair, and I was amazed at how short my long hair looked.

I never expected shrinkage to take its toll on locked hair. Even though she said it would stretch later, I know it will never be it's real length.

After some four hours, we were done. She trimmed off the tips of my hair, and I went under the dryer to use the heat to set the wax in place, and this was what my hair ended up looking like.

I know it looks more line fingercoils or combcoils now, and less like dreadlocks. The loctician said it would take about an average of three months for my hair to actually lock, and the hair will keep stretching in the mean time. I was asked not to let water touch it, and to just spray it with oil for shine.

Now, the deed has been done, we are only keeping our fingers crossed to see how this will pan out in the end. I hope to start rocking waist-length locks by the end of 2018.

Have you ever considered locking your hair. If you have done it, how did that go for you? If you haven't, what is stopping you?

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - Home Service saves the day

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope we are having a great holiday season.

It's been a very long while since we wrote something on Hairstyle Lounge, almost a year ago if I have my dates right. This is because almost all year, I hardly went to the salon due to the fact that many things in my life didn't play out as planned. I can count on both hands how many times I made my hair, and to be honest how many times I washed or cared for my hair. Thankfully, that phase is over and a new phase has started.

I was out of the country for quite sometime, and when I got back, I needed to take down the weaving our very own Discovering Natural made on my hair six weeks prior and get my hair pampered and treated my O'Naturals. Honestly, it was well deserved as the hair was overdue for some loving up.

I got back exactly a month ago, Sunday, and was supposed to be at the salon the Wednesday after that. I woke up on Wednesday morning, and for some reason, my body refused to cooperate. I was a nursing mother with a swollen face and aching jawline (I had visited the dentist two days prior to carry out an extraction), and I was dead tired. I was extremely jetlagged, but I still needed to look good because my baby dedication was in four days time.

I called Omozo of O'Naturals, explained the whole situation to her, and apologised because I was going to miss my appointment. She was very understanding, and we decided to convert the whole process to Home service for the next day, so I could rest that day. Before this, I had never had someone come from a salon to care for my hair so I looked forward to the whole process. I had heard about O'Naturals Home service, but never had any reason to utilize it. Lemme just say they saved my life last week.

At the appointed time, the stylist called me, saying whe was at the estate gate. About 30 minutes later, she had her hands in my head, detangling, massaging my scalp, and getting rid of weeks of build up. Of course, we had to do a thorough detangling especially considering how long I carried the previous hairstyle. We used African Naturalistas Moisturising and Detangling conditioner, which was supplied by O'Naturals, just like all the other products they used on my hair.

We went on to wash with a medicated shampoo, to make sure my scalp was in good condition, and followed it up with a regular shampoo. We dried the hair, and proceeded to steam with African Naturalistas Deep Conditioning Mayonnaise. Now, since it was home service, there was obviously no steaming machine. We used a steam cap instead, and the steaming process lasted for twenty minutes.

We washed again, and dried the hair a bit with microfibre towel, then proceeded to make the hair, a style I selected a day earlier. We were done in about an hour, meaning the hair pampering phase was longer than the hair styling phase.

This was the result of the whole thing

What do you think about it? Yay or Nay? Let me know in the comment section

P.S: My hairstyle journey is about to change for good. Watch out for what's cooking in the oven by staying tuned to this blog

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - I'm a Natural Hair Bride!

If you can remember, from this post, I talked about how I was in a fix about what hairstyle to do for my wedding. I knew I wanted something unique, a kind I have never seen before, not the usual roll, tuck and pin we see on natural hair brides. Omozo of O'Naturals had already suggested some previous styles, and I said no to all of them. So sometime in November, she started showing some more styles, and I kept saying No, no, no, no, no.... no, no, no.... no, no, no... and then I saw it. I said this is what I want. She asked if I was sure, and I affirmed. I said I don't know what will happen, but I want that hairstyle, and that is what must be on my head on my wedding day. We have to make it happen.

Come December 17, in my hotel room in Senegambia Beach Hotel, Banjul Gambia, wiith Omozo with me, and no other stylist to assist her, we brought the style to life. A day before, we went to the hotel's salon to wash the hair, while still in the prewedding stretch thread. So all we needed to do was loose the thread, which took a whole lot of time, detangle, and restretch lightly.

After then, we proceeded to style the hair, starting from the back, and then front. And this was what we ended with.

I was able to wear the hairstyle for 2 more days. Because of the front, it was not very easy to protect while sleeping or bathing, but it was totally worth it.

What do you think about it? Yay or Nay? Let me know in the comment section

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.